I’m trying to re-create the USS Enterprise from the Alternate Universe (J.J. Abrams 2009 Star Trek movie).
My goal is to create a 3D model as detailed as the movie’s 3D model
Just a quick and dirty hull shading and windows transparency test
I had started playing with the “B” but wasn’t having nearly as much luck as you’re having. This is probably the first Alt 1701 I’ve seen and it looks great! What’s the resolution of your UV’s for the saucer section? Hull plates are very, very nice!
I think this looks fantastic. My only critique is that the window lights I think are too bright, the people in those rooms must be going blind. I know they’re noticeable in the series, but I don’t think they’re quite that bright (I could be wrong though). Either way, I still appreciate how this has been coming together, it’s very convincing with the show.
The saucer’s normal maps (big saucer’s plates) are about 12000x12000 pixels… The smaller hull plates uv textures are about 1024x1024 the blue and the white ones and 2048x2048 the brownish-metal one.
Thanks! The current window lights are very bright for testing reason. At the end i will replace them with very simple textured rooms.
12 THOUSAND! That explains a lot. Any Enterprise is so much fun to animate around and a deceptive modeling challenge too. Your model has lots of grace. You might inspire me to return to the “B.” Got plans for shuttle craft?
The alternative NCC-1701 is quite a challenge to model it cause there are no accurate schematics of this ship over the Internet and the movie’s shots of this ship are of short duration… and very shaky/blurry/dark/etc
Yes, but when i’ll complete the USS Enterprise model.
I’m not a huge fan of the design of that ship, but your work looks great!
My current progress on this project
Nice! Looking really good so far.
